Yes (IPA: /jɛs/) is a common English wor indicating agreement, or favor and is used in a positive statement. It is the opposite of no. The informal variant yeah (IPA: /jeə/) indicates general agreement and is often used as a polite interjection. An older form, yea (IPA: /jeɪ/), is used to express formality, as when casting or counting official votes, whereas yes sir is used in deference to the authority of another. "Yes" may also be used as an acknowledgement that one is listening to another.

Trivia about yes

  • Affirmative
  • After going "Roundabout" this group returned to the charts in 1983 with "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
  • "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"(1984)
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  • Wallace Stevens began a poem, "After the final no there comes a" this
  • "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky", sang this group in 1972's "Roundabout"
  • Zorba imparts the beauty of the Greek language, but some lessons are tricky, like the one teaching that "ne" means this